So, as always, democracy denied to all but westminster...

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺@markrich68.bsky.social · 4d ago

We need to stop acting as if Perfidious Albion will ever play fair when it comes to accommodating the end of their precious, glorious union🇬🇧 It’s now time for our 3 FMs to come together in ‘The Celtic Alliance’, to jointly demand our right to constitutional democracy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☘️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

“Be Strong enough to be gentle.” Peter Cullen tells the story of how his brother inspired the voice he would use to play Optimus Prime. It’s a simple yet poignant quote that sums up why Optimus and Peter are so beloved. Til All Are One. 💔

I'm deeply saddened to read of Peter Cullen passing Like many of my generation (& countless since), his Optimus Prime *was* my childhood, showcasing a warmth beyond just being a battle-hardened hero that meant everything to me Thank you for all you gave us, Peter RIP

"Freedom is the right of every sentient being. Until all are one."

Okay. So I've had a migraine all day, just woke up to see that Peter Cullen has died. After Tim Curry. After Dolly Parton... That's too much pain.

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

Playing the organ with a sprained left wrist = soprano, alto & some tenor parts in the right hand. Bass and some tenor on the pedals. Hurrah for double-pedalling? Talk about a workout for the brain.

“Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly.” We must resist fascist logic.

Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"

and not every wealthy person who came from poverty retains the capacity to see the humanity in people who aren't exactly like them that's the core difference between Dolly and, for example, JKR; maybe once she cared a lot about cishet low-income moms like she was, but that's not really empathy

Lindsay Ellis has unlocked this video from Nebula exclusivity on the occasion of Dolly's passing. I recommend watching, it will only be available for a limited time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuK...

Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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I struggle to describe what Dolly meant to me as a southern blonde who spent her entire life getting disrespected to my face for being trashy and vain, but I will encourage you today to reflect on the ways YOU have treated women in your life whose aesthetics you find insufficiently respectable

Can you guess which CAC faculty member spoke these words? Share your thoughts here in the comments.

Now it makes sense... great work by Byline, as usual... 👇 bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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The persecution of minorities has reached bloodthirsty levels in this country. We have become a monstrous nation My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

The persecution of minorities has reached bloodthirsty levels

Even in death, Jason Arday is hounded, writes Neil Mackay: the cruelty isn’t just immoral and disgusting, it is making Britain look like a nation…

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I can't help but feel, if a conference or institution is expecting a document or presentation in a particular format then it should be up to them to supply said software: for a wide variety of reasons not everyone uses microsoft, so to 'demand' powerpoint, word etc isn't terrible inclusive.

Young miner and his pit pony, Durham, 1965, photo by John Bulmer.

It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

Today is the 180th anniversary of Elsie Inglis's birth. She obtained the Triple Qualification in medicine in 1892, founded a maternity hospital in Edinburgh, spoke at suffrage events organized by Milicent Fawcett, and during WWI created the Scottish Women's Hospitals. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️

NEW BOOK!

Keir Hardie was born on this day 1856 in Legbrannock, Lanarkshire.

Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THESE ISLES: James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), a Lanarkshire-born miners’ leader, was a crucial figure in the foundation of the Labour Party and also represented a seat in south Wales. ‘Labour's greatest pioneer and its greatest hero,’ wrote one historian. 1/7

Spot the difference....

Green Party leader Zack Polanski blasts BBC's pro-Reform bias after a Newsnight ambush and press conference snub.

Polanski slams BBC Reform-friendly hypocrisy after Newsnight ambush

Green Party leader Zack Polanski blasts BBC pro-Reform bias after a Newsnight ambush and press conference snub

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Government seems to be thinking that if they ignore what's happening it will all go away. Burnham is your surname, not an instruction.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3w ago

A fire now the size of 140 football pitches Drought in half of England & all of Wales Heat alerts across the country. Already 3000 dead from the heat. The crisis is here. We can see it, we can smell the smoke. We cannot sit by while government sit on their hands. www.lbc.co.uk/article/new-...

I was glad, glad when they said unto me. We shall go into the house of the Lord!

Somebody must have done this before! But now I have too…

Imagine if you took all the profits off gas/oil cos, AI cos, and other massively polluting, but profitable, industries worldwide and put them into: Decarbonising everything Investing in sustainable transport Building reservoirs Planting trees We could solve this. Yet, politicians choose not to

Mum! The TV's broken. There's some weirdo on it with my name. Make it stop.